Microsoft will add new software, developer tools and capabilities to Office 365 in an attempt to make the cloud applications suite a "smarter" product that is better at helping people interact at work.
Upper Hutt based Layer3 has developed Filecloud, an application similar in functionality to Dropbox.
Huddle's enterprise content collaboration suite now has a native component for creating, editing and sharing documents, an attempt by the company to reduce its customers' usage of Microsoft's Word and OneNote applications.
In a move to consolidate overlapping lines of software, Helwett-Packard is merging three of its records management products into a single offering, to be called HP Records Manager.
Google is retiring Desktop, an application it launched in 2004 that is designed to let people search for files and data stored in their computers' hard drives.
IBM said Thursday it has purchased financial governance software maker Clarity Systems. Terms were not disclosed.
A hosted application for securing shared corporate documents is being extended to handheld devices. With WatchDox, mobile users can view and even selected documents, but be prevented from saving, printing, or forwarding them, if desired.
Analyst firm Gartner is warning users of Trim document management software that they should press Hewlett-Packard for assurances on the company’s commitment to content management.
Following last year’s acquisition of Hummingbird, enterprise content management vendor OpenText will launch a detailed product road map later this month that will outline where the two software products are headed.
Parliament is tiptoeing into e-democracy with a pilot project for the electronic filing of submissions on legislation, as well for managing public access to associated documents.
In the evolving world of business intelligence, swift and targeted access to reports and analysis is the name of the game. But the frequent inability of employees to locate the results they need from high-end BI applications is prompting several enterprise search vendors to step in and address the challenge.
The Australian Tax Office is approaching the end of the second phase of its A$450 million (NZ$538 million) change programme by extending its CRM system to more than 7,000 staff and consolidating 180 case management systems.
When implementing a document management system there are a couple of things that organisations often miss, says Sarah Heal, director of Christchurch-based business and IT consultancy Information Leadership Consulting.
IBM’s plan to acquire business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for US$1.6 billion (NZ$2.5 billion) represents its largest potential acquisition since it bought Rational Software for US$2.1 billion in 2003. It signals more consolidation in the content management market as the larger IT vendors look to bolster their capabilities.
Given its history, it is no surprise that paper still plays a major role in most corporations. But as businesses redouble their efforts to increase productivity by automating and rethinking paper-centric business processes, IT is finally gaining the upper hand.